AN EASY POINT. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY C. C. GALLAHER. 



near a wire fence in front of the Home. 

 The pictures were taken at 7.30 in the morn- 

 ing, with a No. 5 Eastman Folding Kodak, 

 on a Cramer Inst. Orthochromatic Plate ex- 

 posed one second ; stop No. 32. We made 

 2 trips to the nest before getting a picture. 

 The first morning the dog spoiled the work 

 by poking her nose into the nest, and scar- 

 ing the quail off. I wanted a picture of the 

 dog pointing, but the first trial was not suc- 

 cessful. The male bird was on the nest at 

 the time. 



That evening Mr. Gallaher rode out on 

 his wheel to see if the nest had been aban- 

 doned, as a result of the scare given the set- 

 ting bird in the morning. He found the 

 female setting, so we agreed to make another 

 trial the nex f morning. At that time we 

 again found the male bird doing his share 

 toward raising the family. We made 2 ex- 

 posures. In the first, I am shown in the act 

 of pulling the grass and twigs from around 

 the. nest. The second is a good likeness of 

 Mr. Quail, after the clearing away process 

 was finished. You can see how close I was 

 to the fence, in the first picture. It was 

 necessary to disturb the bird a little in order 

 to get all the stuff cleared away, so that he 



and nest could be plainly seen; but the little 

 fellow did not seem afraid. On the con- 

 trary, he refused to move, and, ruffling up 

 his feathers, exactly as a setting hen does, 

 showed fight, and actually pecked my 

 fingers. 



Mr. Gallaher had an extension of about 8 

 inches on his camera, which enabled him to 

 place the lens within 2 feet of the object, 

 making the picture large enough to leave no 

 doubt in one's mind as to what the bird is. 



Mr. Blair was there with his dog while we 

 were taking the picture of the bird, and, af- 

 ter we had that finished he made his dog 

 point the bird. The third picture is the re- 

 sult. 



I have hunted quail with dog and gun 

 ever since I was large enough to shoot, and 

 I must confess this hunt with a camera — 

 even if some one else did the work — af- 

 forded me more pleasure than any shooting 

 I ever did. 



Mr. Blair is an ardent admirer of Recrea- 

 tion, and Mr. Gallaher is a brother of a 

 Missouri contributor. I hope many people 

 outside the ranks of the amateur photog- 

 raphers may become converted to the higher 

 ideal which Recreation so ably champions. 



A Peace Commission with Spain, a Cuban 

 Commission, a Porto Rican Commission, 

 and a Canadian Commission. . The United 

 States seems to be doing its most important 

 work by commission in these days. — Balti- 

 more American. 



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